Ecuadorian architects Ignacio Muñoz Bustamante and Javier Mera Luna have teamed up to expand a hotel with three new guest rooms constructed with metal vaulted roofs over stone walls in Papallacta, Ecuador.
Known as Las Pajareras, the guest rooms are part of Guango Lodge, a 300-acre (121 hectares) property between the Papallacta River and the Chalpi Mountain range that has been maintained and conserved by the same family for more than 50 years.
Architects Ignacio Muñoz Bustamante and Javier Mera Luna have expanded an inn with three barrel-vaulted guest houses
Located at an altitude of 2700 meters above sea level, the area is named for its resemblance to an Indigenous Ecuadorian braid (guango) due to several converging Andean mountain ranges and is a destination for bird watchers, photographers and conservationists. Drawing on the general stylistic guidelines of the previous buildings, Las Pajareras was constructed to expand housing capacity with three rooms and a shared outdoor patio totalling 130 square metres (1,400 square feet).
The guest rooms are part of a 300-acre property in Ecuador
An initial structure was constructed in the 1960s with load-bearing flagstone walls set on a thin concrete slab and topped with a vault system made of curved bamboo cane. Although no longer standing, the first building served as a model for a still-standing house constructed in 1996.
The second house is a two-storey longitudinal house with river stone walls supporting a long reinforced c...